Blog Collecting: Part three and final notes

A blog I check every day, several times a day, is Gertie's Blog for Better Sewing. Gertie is this amazingly cute, energetic blogger, who always writes about just the things I want to read: vintage fashion! She has great and informative articles on her adventures sewing from Vogue's New Book For Better Sewing, as well as an ongoing forum for enthusiastic commenters (and her commenters are some of the MOST enthusiastic) to discuss body image and other issues presented to women today. I highly recommend this blog, if you're only going to read one. She updates constantly, and is a joy to read.

Already Pretty is such an inspiring read. The beautiful and tasteful Sally writes this blog, giving pictures of her daily wonderful outfits and tips on putting outfits together. Today, she posted a beautiful post on being womanly, and what it means to different people. Go for the outfits...stay for the food for thought.

Male Pattern Boldness is a blog I just started reading, but I already love it. It's written by the very talented MALE (I know, get excited) sewer Peter Lappin, who is also a reviewer of patterns on Pattern Review, a fab website to check out if you are looking into buying a pattern to sew, and want to know other people's experiences with it. Anywhoo, Peter writes a hilarious and often-updated blog that speaks to universal issues with sewing as well as his adventures in fashion. Love him!


Well, that about wraps it up for the blogs I read. There are a few others, but these are my favorites! Sorry it took so long to update this series!

Blog Collecting: Part two

Long time coming, no? I'll just pick up where I left off, then. ;)

The Pink Teapot is run by Janine, a very sweet and heartfelt writer who offers excellent etiquette advice. She always writes nice length posts on things absolutely relevant to real world situations, while I find that the brand name Miss Manners tends to handle only the most bizarre of all social situations. Which fork do I use underwater when dining with the sheikh, and whatnot. No, Janine always explains gently and gracefully the best ways for normal people to act and be received. Three cheers for Janine, "the people's Miss Manners"!

Letters of Note is such a fabulous and interesting blog. The author posts scans and transcripts of old, extremely cool letters, like this one from the leadership of Israel to Albert Einstein, requesting that he accept the presidency of Israel! Very easy to read, low involvement, and soooooooo cool.  (By the way, he obviously said no.)

Elsie Marley is the queen of tutorials. She makes the best ones, she finds the best ones. That's all there is to it. That, and her incredibly easy-on-the-eyes blog design. ;)

LetterHeady, by the same guy who does Letter of Note, is a fun showcase of some of the neatest letterheads around. Take a look. Great design inspiration, and just great for a little dose of neat-o.

Tavi is just hilarious. She is totally tiny and young (I think 13? Early teens, anyway) and just about the most fashionable and wonderful person. If she and I lived next door, we'd craft hats out of velvet and flounce about in brocade mixed with tulle. I'm just saying. Her posts on fashion are pure joy to read.

Ok! Just a few more! Saving them for another post! ;)

Blog collecting: Part one

Almost as bad as my new fad of pattern collecting is my fad of blog collecting. I have been obsessively adding blog after blog after blog to my Favorites, until it is now officially (within just a few days) longer than my screen is tall. A scroll button has added itself to the bottom of it, and to my dismay I find that I am confused immenselyby what has been updated, what has not...etc. So, if you are into anything I am into, please take a moment to pick my brain (and Favorites) and look through some of these awesome bloggers.  This even has to become a multi-part post because I couldn't possibly marathon the effort needed to write about all of these at once.

(this is but a tiny sample of my Favorites. It's nuts, I know.)

First off, Amy Karol at Angry Chicken is one of my favorites. She has such a candor and ease to her posts that make me feel like a friend, or at least not a stupid sewing or crafting rookie that can't even hope to decipher the "lingo." On top of that, she takes everything with a grain of salt, providing awesome photos, everyone-friendly crafts, and a lovely sense of earth-love and humor. What is earth-love, you ask? Someone who is in touch with this lovely planet we live on, and values it for what it's worth. ;) Amy also runs Tie It On, a blog devoted to giveaways involving apron making according to a certain theme. A longtime lurker, I hope to piece together my first submission for this soon. 

The Queen Bee's Buzz is run by my good friend Regina, a talented quilter and creative genius in her own right. How lucky we are that we don't sit close to each other in the office, otherwise we'd get no work done!!! Her posts are lively and full of great ideas and colors--she has an amazing eye for matching fabrics. Seriously. Her whole family is incredibly creative...and it's so comforting and inviting to read about their adventures together. I highly recommend this blog!!!

Thimble is a wonderful blog to find tutorials and inspiration on. The authoress, (I think her name is Laura), has one of the biggest doses of "good taste" that I've ever seen. Like me, she is in love with bird motifs, but unlike me she is actually skilled in making them work for her in ten million different ways. She is also bold enough to experiment with all sorts of creation--from crochet, to sewing, to getting out that glue gun and pasting things to other things. If only my crafts could come out looking half as decent! Two thumbs up to Thimble!

Alright, kids, it's almost 11:30am, and I really want to go see my horse today. What horse, you ask? Well , his name is Pedro, and though I'm sure he isn't sorry that I haven't seen him in a few days, I am extremely sorry and have a need to go brush on his yak-like orange winter coat. Ta-ta for now!